Religiously deluded, bigoted, right-wingnuts say the darndest things. Just the other day, Manitoban PC leader Brian Pallister wished the very best to “all you infidel atheists out there”. Say again? “All you infidel atheists” He didn’t say that. He really did. On camera. Check the vid. Pretty amazing, right? But
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Terahertz: So are atheists being censored in Vancouver?
Last week I meant to add a note that the Centre for Inquiry Canada has issued a press release about the fact that Pattison Outdoor Advertising had rejected their fairly inoffensive new billboard campaign in Vancouver. A pretty slick ad that’s pretty hard to find fault with. I’ll skip over
Continue readingTerahertz: UK has “Systemic Discrimination” against freethinkers
Indi at Canadian Atheist brought the IHEU’s 2013 Freedom of Thought Report to my attention and has already done a brilliant summary of the issues facing Canada. Very shortly he’ll also be posting a commentary on the broader report. I encourage you to download and read the entire 244 page
Continue readingMolly'sBlog: THE DARK SIDE OF CHRISTIAN HISTORY
The Dark Side of Christian HistoryThe Dark Side of Christian History by Helen Ellerbe: Morningstar and Lark, Orlando Florida, 1999 ISBN 0-9644873-4-9 This is the sort of book that I had to force myself through. It was not so muc…
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The Dark Side of Christian History The Dark Side of Christian History by Helen Ellerbe: Morningstar and Lark, Orlando Florida, 1999 ISBN 0-9644873-4-9 This is the sort of book that I had to force myself through. It was not so much the purported subject matter but rather the author’s not-so-well-hidden
Continue readingMolly'sBlog: THE DARK SIDE OF CHRISTIAN HISTORY
The Dark Side of Christian History The Dark Side of Christian History by Helen Ellerbe: Morningstar and Lark, Orlando Florida, 1999 ISBN 0-9644873-4-9 This is the sort of book that I had to force myself through. It was not so much the purported subject matter but rather the author’s not-so-well-hidden
Continue readingBlevkog: The Ultimate Responsibility
I am not a parent. It’s not that I didn’t want to be, I love children, and they seem to tolerate me well enough; events in my life have thus far prevented me from being a father. Which, of course, does not preclude it from happening in the future, and
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: The Lion’s Roar: Cutting through illusion to the heart of the matter
“There is no difference between theism and non-theism, basically speaking. Declaring an involvement with any kind of ‘ism’ turns out to be a matter of self and other. In fact, the whole question of self and other can then become very important. But if you really pursue any spiritual path,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWE Sunday Disservice – Malala Yousafzai’s Book Banned
Pakistan announced that Malala Yousafzai’s book “I Am Malala” was banned from private schools. From the CBC: Officials say they have banned teenage education activist Malala Yousafzai’s book from private schools across Pakistan, calling her a tool of the West. It isn’t about religion, holiness, or allah, god (etc.).
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – What Tops the Hand of God?
I’d like to quote-mine the christian apologist Francis Spufford for his thoughts on religion when he says that: That we’re [the religious] too stupid to understand the irrationality of our creeds. That we build absurdly complex intellectual structures, full of meaningless distinctions, on the marshmallow foundations of a fantasy. It’s
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Pat Robertson Rarely Disappoints
Whenever I want a little theatre of the absurd, I turn to Pat Robertson. He rarely disappoints: Recommend this Post
Continue readingTerahertz: Ambition and Momentum–Sunday Assembly
This morning The Sunday Assembly live-streamed their London service to a few hundred viewers across the globe. I watched from Leeds and saw people on Twitter watching it bright and early in America and late in the evening in Australia. Conway Hall looked near capacity and many groups held get-togethers
Continue readingTerahertz: Brits and the Devil
Since moving to England, I haven’t been able to participate in Angus Reid surveys (their site only allows Canadian IPs to participate), so instead I’ve been getting my polling participation fix through YouGov. The most recent one I completed was just released and is part of a UK-USA comparison of
Continue readingTerahertz: Sunday Assembly Schism!
No sooner had I talked about how churchy the Sunday Assembly is/isn’t then news breaks that several of the New York organizers have left the brand to form the Godless Revival. It sounds mostly amicable, with a difference in emphasis being the primary difference. The Sunday Assembly is moving slightly
Continue readingTerahertz: How ‘Churchy’ is the Sunday Assembly?
Disclaimer: I’m one of the organizers for The Sunday Assembly Leeds and have met both Sanderson Jones and Pippa Evans. One of the key ingredients to the early success of The Sunday Assembly, in my mind, is the use of the paradoxical phrase “Atheist Church.” It simultaneously describes exactly what
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Atheists Just Want to Sin!
Well duh? I mean if we couldn’t stop the 25/8 festival of sin centered fun that all atheists share, why would be atheists? Darkmatter2525 has a rather poignant reply to some of the horsepucky thrown at gentle unbelievers. Filed under: Atheism, Religion Tagged: Atheists Just Want to Sin!, Christianity,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Fuck Cancer
Arb and I are now down to only one cat. This is how I’ll remember Lilith Not long after her boneless lying in the sun picture, we started noticing Lilith was losing weight. And then her coat turned nasty like she wasn’t grooming herself properly, so it was vet time
Continue readingTerahertz: Launching the Sunday Assembly Leeds!
Over the past few months, I’ve watched with keen interest as Sanderson Jones and Pippa Evans, two British comics that I hadn’t heard of before, founded and started hosting The Sunday Assembly in London. They billed their show as “part foot-stomping show, part atheist church” and set off with the
Continue readingTerahertz: Political Atheists
The Huffington Post has a piece comparing open atheists in government in the USA with the UK. They note that only two American legislators have only ever really professed non-belief: Pete Stark and Barney Frank (the latter admitting it after leaving politics). Meanwhile, the current deputy Prime Minister of the
Continue readingTerahertz: Skeptic with an Eh?
Seeing a gap in the Leed’s Skeptics in the Pub event for September, I volunteer to give a talk on the skeptical movement in Canada. Here are the details if you want to come stalk me in person: Monday, 23 September 2013 19:00 at the Victoria Hotel (28 Great George
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